Randi Waldman and Daniela Abbott have been part of iTHRiVE — an organization that connects women to one another — for years, but the inspiration for tonight’s Floralia: A Celebration of Wine, Women, Spring and Song was a chance happening. Waldman teaches an exercise class and discovered that one of…
Curious Theatre’s annual Denver Stories fundraiser always starts with the same formula: The quartet of local celebrities chosen to be honored with an on-stage bio invariably includes a restaurateur (handy for snacks), a politician, an entrepreneur and a figure from the arts and culture scene. “We just decide that this…
It’s been thirty years since book-loving siblings Tom and Marilyn Auer put out the first edition of The Bloomsbury Review, a homegrown journal that’s gained national recognition over the years for doing what other national journals didn’t: Writing about mid-list literary treasures that were under-promoted and often overlooked by the…
When the folks at Ballet Nouveau Colorado started brainstorming fundraiser ideas, they wanted to make sure they put the fun in fundraising. The result? Scavenger Nouveau, a team scavenger hunt that starts tonight at 6 p.m. at the Magnolia Ballroom, 818 17th Street, then heads to LoDo before it wraps…
It took local author Manuel Ramos, best known for his Denver-centric crime fiction, ten years to finish King of the Chicanos, a novel that rides on the history of the Chicano movement of the ’60s. But he knew it was something he had to do. “I believed that some of…
Movement, euphoria, freedom: Jazz evokes different responses in different people. And yet it’s always been a music that draws people together, as evidenced by Five Points’ musical heyday in the 1940s and ’50s. Back then, people would flock to the Points to hear such artists as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington…
Buntport Theater’s Evan Weissman doesn’t really want to tell you what Jugged Rabbit Stew, the company’s last production of the season, is actually about. “It just comes off as sounding so hokey and strange,” he laments. Another atypical Buntport musical inspired by the success of the troupe’s first one, a…
“The spirit of this event really embodies the mission of Mi Casa, which is that you truly can be anything you want to be,” says Cheryl Balchunas, events manager for Mi Casa Resource Center, a local nonprofit that assists Latino and low-income families achieve financial independence. The organization is hosting…
“I celebrate the color of my cottage, the flavor of fresh herbs, the festivity of food, the whimsy of my garden, and an occasional shot of tequila. Welcome to the fiesta!” writes Lucinda Hutson, author of the Herb Garden Cookbook and Tequila! Cooking With the Spirit of Mexico, who’ll be…
Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, whose 2007 Bach’s Goldberg Variations debuted at the number-one spot on Billboard’s Classical Chart during its first week of sales, says Bach’s piece is probably one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for keyboard. “It’s a huge piece,” she says. “It’s like an epic…
Maruca Salazar became the director of the Museo de las Américas (861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, www.museo.org) in the fall of 2009 and unveiled her first show, La Malagua, a couple of months ago. The exhibit highlights the work of a collaborative group of artists based in Puerto Vallarta and…
Charlene Harlow and Linda Campbell. In the west gallery at Edge, co-op member Charlene Harlow has unveiled a suite of unusual abstract paintings in the exhibit New Work by Charlene Harlow. These paintings are bold in several ways: The colors are loud, and she’s used some difficult juxtapositions of tones…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Sweetgrass, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s unforgettable sheep-herding documentary, come close to heaven, it’s telling that AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” can be faintly heard over the sound of the electronic contraptions that hired hands yield to shear the docile creatures, one…
Is it an accident that Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It’s certainly something of a surprise. When the movie was announced in 2007 with the title Nottingham, reports suggested that it would sympathize with the normally vilified Sheriff of Nottingham…
Another movie, not as awful or deluded as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe between Queen Latifah and Common, the stars of Just Wright, a romantic comedy (for the ladies) with basketball and cameo-ing NBA players in it (for the fellas). That absolutely no…
Rich in silence, sparing of words (and even those are sometimes unexpectedly ordinary, given the hushed and mysterious setting), The Sound of a Voice is based on Japanese folklore. An exploration of human love and loneliness — among other things — the play begins as a warrior comes to kill…
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Sweetgrass, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s unforgettable sheep-herding documentary, come close to heaven, it’s telling that AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” can be faintly heard over the sound of the electronic contraptions that hired hands yield to shear the docile creatures, one…
American Craft Beer Week is an annual celebration of microbreweries, organized by the Boulder-based Brewers Association and enjoyed from sea to shining sea. And what better way to celebrate the week, which starts today and runs through May 23, than with the opening of a new brewery in Denver? Strange…
Animal Fitness isn’t like any exercise class or boot camp you’ve ever done. “We’re just trying to set up cool, innovative fitness courses for people and trying to distract them from the boredoms of what the trends are now,” says Animal Fitness’s Scott Jones of the weekly mini-adventure, which is…
It’s an unnerving sign of the times that there are kids suffering from childhood obesity and what Richard Louv calls “nature deficit disorder” here in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. But a new book from Steamboat magazine editor Eugene Buchanan aims to help parents pick up the trail with…
From personal experience as an erstwhile artist, I can tell you that life drawing can be such a pain. For one thing, the professional pool isn’t very deep, and no matter how good the model is, you’ll get tired of her particular variety of au naturel stretch, sprawl or repose…
